Germaine Rouillard | |
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Born | 4 August 1888 |
Died | 1 September 1946 Paris | (aged 58)
Occupation(s) | Byzantinist Philologist |
Germaine Rouillard (4 August 1888 – 1 September 1946) was a 20th-century French byzantinist specializing in philology.
The daughter of a wealthy and educated pharmacist of Argenton-sur-Creuse where she spent her childhood, she was well educated in Indre and Paris then was a librarian at the Sorbonne. In 1923 she obtained her State doctorate in literature at the Faculté of Paris. She was never elected a female professor at the Sorbonne but became the first woman to hold a chair, that of Byzantine philology at the École pratique des hautes études where she would make all her academic career. She was specialized in papyrology and Byzantine philology.
Germaine Rouillard | |
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Born | 4 August 1888 |
Died | 1 September 1946 Paris | (aged 58)
Occupation(s) | Byzantinist Philologist |
Germaine Rouillard (4 August 1888 – 1 September 1946) was a 20th-century French byzantinist specializing in philology.
The daughter of a wealthy and educated pharmacist of Argenton-sur-Creuse where she spent her childhood, she was well educated in Indre and Paris then was a librarian at the Sorbonne. In 1923 she obtained her State doctorate in literature at the Faculté of Paris. She was never elected a female professor at the Sorbonne but became the first woman to hold a chair, that of Byzantine philology at the École pratique des hautes études where she would make all her academic career. She was specialized in papyrology and Byzantine philology.